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Title Stars = Sterne
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.)
Summary Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter, an artist and sergeant in the Wehrmacht, lives an almost idyllic life far away from the war. Then one day a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. Ruth, one of the Greek Jews, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman in the camp. At first he refuses, but then changes his mind and sends a doctor into the camp ... Stars, based on scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein's personal experiences and historic events during the Holocaust in the Balkans, was awarded the Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in a newly restored digital transfer from the original 35mm negative the film broke with East Bloc representational conventions during the Cold War in its depiction of both Wehrmacht soldiers and Jewish suffering and resistance
Notes Title from title frames
Event Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1959
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Drama
Pregnant women -- Drama
Pregnant women.
SUBJECT Germany (East) -- Drama
Subject Germany (East)
Genre/Form War films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
War films.
Films de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Wolf, Konrad, director
Kruscharska, Sascha, actor.
Frohriep, Jürgen, 1928-1993, actor.
Pejtschew, Stefan, actor
Klein, Erik S., actor
Kondow, Ivan, actor
Kunew, Stiljan, actor
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DEFA Film Library.